The Final Night #1

Dates

Cover date

November 1996

On sale

September 4, 1996

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct Sales

  Barcode 76194120740700111

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07098932382743

  This edition’s page
• DC Universe Corner Box

  This edition’s page

Story arc: The Final Night

This is part 4 of 23. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Green Lantern (1990) #80
2. Sovereign Seven (1995) #16
3. Superman (1987) #117
4. The Final Night (1996) #1
5. The Power of SHAZAM! (1995) #20
6. Batman (1940) #536
7. Green Arrow (1988) #114
8. Supergirl (1996) #3
9. The Final Night (1996) #2
10. Action Comics (1938) #727
11. Aquaman (1994) #26
12. Detective Comics (1937) #703
13. Parallax: Emerald Night (1996) #1
14. Superboy (1994) #33
15. The Final Night (1996) #3
16. Flash (1987) #119
17. Hitman (1996) #8
18. Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #62
19. Takion (1996) #6
20. The Final Night (1996) #4
21. The Spectre (1992) #47
22. The Power of Shazam! (2023) #2
23. DC Finest: Supergirl: Body & Soul (2025) #nn

Creators

Stories

• Chapter One: Dusk · 23 pages

  Dusk alerts the superhero community to the danger of the Sun-Eater. One team goes with Mr. Miracle who plans to use a Boom Tube to teleport the Sun-Eater away. A second team of heat- and light-based heroes plans to decoy the Sun-Eater away from the Earth's sun. Both plans fail, and the Sun-Eater consumes the sun.

• S.T.A.R.Com Emergency Information Center · 1 pages

Publisher’s description

When a strange visitor arrives on Earth with dire news of an approaching doom, the DCU heroes must unite to battle a terrifying threat that can blot out the sun and plunge the world into eternal darkness. What will happen when there is no light?

Characters

Reprinted in

The Final Night (1998), The Final Night (2021)